National Research Nuclear University

“MEPhI”

Andrey Pryakhin , Georgy Tikhomirov

Strategic academic unit as a synergy between education, research and innovations and its position in

knowledge life cycle

Third International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management, 7-11 November 2016, IAEA

Plan of appearance

1. MEPhI is the leading University in Russia

2. Scheme of the world-class University

3. Transformation of the structure of MEPhI, Strategic Academic Units

4. Institute of Nuclear Physics and Engineering (INPhE) – creation objectives,

approaches to implementation

5. The life cycle of knowledge. The specifics of the nuclear industry.

6. Examples of projects of the IAEA and NEA/OECD in the preservation of

nuclear knowledge, which are used in the educational process of INPhE

7. Place of INPhE (University) in the life cycle of nuclear knowledge

Outstanding Soviet physicists and the USSR Atom Project leaders participated

in MEPhI development; 6 Nobel prize winners were among its staff

UNIVERSITY HISTORY

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I.V. Kurchatov

A.D.Sakharov N.N.Semenov I.E.Tamm P.A.Cherenkov I.M.Frank N.G. Basov

S.I. Kislyak

Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the U.S.

S.V.Avdeev Cosmonaut

Hero of Russia

N.N. Rukavishnikov Cosmonaut

Hero of the Soviet Union

NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY «MEPhI» Physics & Engineering Education & Research & Industrial Innovations

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900 Foreign students

120 Foreign Professors

20 000 Students overall

900 Professors

20 Regional

Universities and colleges

Diagram of World-Class University

World-class University

Effective management

Abundance of resources

Concentration of talents

Propagation of new ideas and technologies management

The results of scientific research Graduates

The Challenge of Establishing the World Class Universities. / Jamil Salmi.

(2009, The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank)

Management

Human

capital

Resources

Examples of objectives

and instruments

Key principles

of SАU

High autonomy of SAU in the decision-making

Each SAU is operating in conditions of self-sufficiency, as a research and educational unit

Investing in talents Academic mobility

Transformation of SAU into international platform for knowledge exchange

Well-developed research infrastructure

Resource centers for collective use

Strategic Academic Units (SAU): Improving of sustainability and autonomy:

Strategic academic unit as a synergy between education, research and innovations

INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND

ENGINEERING

• COMING REVOLUTION IN PARTICLE PHYSICS

• NEW FORMS OF ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY

• SAFETY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY

• RADIOACTIVE WASTE AND ECOLOGY

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PARTNERS

Foreign scientific and educational centers

Industrial partners

Faculty - 150

Research - 150

Students - 1500

Center of Fundamental research and particle physics Center for Nuclear systems and materials Center for Nuclear power engineering

The Past The Present Future

Knowledge life cycle

Knowledge People Resources

Knowledge in universities

Knowledge of only narrow professionals Development of technology

Opening of an effect Aging of technology

IT-projects in the nuclear industry International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

– International control of nuclear technology – Coordination of education – International database (portal NUCLEUS)

• INIS (international nuclear information system) • PRIS (Power Reactor Information System, database on power reactors in the world) • ….

Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA OECD) – Nuclear database (JANIS) – Database of programs in the nuclear field

Computer center for radiation safety (RSICC) – Database of programs and tests in nuclear industry – Technical support of programs of the United States

Purposes of application of databases in NRNU MEPhI in the field of nuclear technology

• Learning through activities

• Youth involvement in nuclear subjects

• Use of modern information technologies

• Classification and preservation of knowledge on nuclear technologies

“Nuclear” databases in the learning process of INPhE

JANIS – program of nuclear data demonstration

ENDL (ENDF/B-VI.8, JEF-2.2, JEFF-3.0, JENDL-3.3)

libraries of evaluated nuclear data

NUBASE-2003

evaluated properties of nuclei

EXFOR – database of nuclear reactions

IHECSBE – data base of evaluated critical

experiments (benchmarks)

PRIS – database of power reactors

Problem Project Information system University Society

Place of the University in the promotion of IT projects

Computer, on which the Internet was invented Tim Berners-Lee, 1989

(Museum CERN) Leading researcher of the Laboratory of Informatics and artificial intelligence (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (USA), Professor at the University of Southampton (UK)

• Cooperation in the implementation of initiatives and efforts related with education and training in the nuclear field: STAR-NET network, INMA Academy;

• Cooperation in the field of Nuclear Security and assurance;

• Cooperation in the development of innovative and modern technology of education in the nuclear field: virtual labs, simulators of VVER and TA, school laboratories for CIS at the physics and safety of nuclear power plants;

• Cooperation in the planning and implementation of activities of the IAEA in collecting and preserving information on peaceful use of nuclear science and technology through the Russian center of International nuclear information system (INIS);

• Participation in the work and support expert missions and assist in the organization of the provision of laboratories and staff for probations.

Fruitful many years

cooperation was reinforced

by the signing Practical

Arrangements in 2012

NRNU MEPhI is a point of the Russian localization of the IAEA Cyber Learning Platform CLP4NET to support

national and international educational activities and trainings.

Annual NKM school in Trieste

– joint efforts of IAEA, MEPhI,

and ICTP center

Collaboration of NRNU MEPhI and the IAEA

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Conclusions

1. The life cycle of nuclear knowledge can be influenced by introducing nuclear databases (IAEA, NEA/OECD, Rosatom) in the educational process of specialized universities 2. The use of nuclear databases of IAEA, NEA/OECD, Rosatom in the educational process of MEPhI makes for the preservation of nuclear knowledge 3. For effective preservation of nuclear knowledge we think necessary to involve lecturers of specialized universities in the development of nuclear databases and to provide for the development of training materials

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Strategic academic unit as a synergy between education, research and innovations and its position in

knowledge life cycle

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